The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-01-13
The Cincinnati and Birmingham Railway
Project.


Project.
Cor. Commercial Dispatch.
The committee of gentlemen from
Kentucky, Tennessee aud Alabama,
who are in the city in the interest
of railroad from this city, or some
near point on the Cincinnati South
err, via Huntsville, Ala, to Bir-l
mlngham, of which notice was Civ
en- 10 the Commercial Gazette, yes
tcrt.av, were in conference yester-
day with General Manager Gault
All other railway officials and sew
eral OF our leading business men
an capitalists. There will be fur
ther conference, hereafter and it is
gratifying to know these southern
gentlemen have met with such en-
| couragement as to warrant and jus
tify o continuation of their efforts
in behalf of this movement. 1t
needs but casual glance at the
map to show that it will be a road
OF comparatively easy and economi-
Teal construction, and will traverse
pefhapS the richest and most grow
liag section of the south in natural
wealth and growing Industries of a
diversified character. 1t viii he
seen that that the trade and traffic
5 of this entire section of country
can be drawn to this city. Cincin
a natl must not only look, but &C
:. south for an extension of hel
s trade.
h The very healthy condition, a
d this time, of public sentiment il
n Kentucky, Tennessee and Alabam.
e IN regard to all matters pertainin,
il to internal improvements,lt he grea
e natural demand for this line, ant
a the expressed favorable disposition
on the part of the people througI
If whose section this road would ru
e. to give it every possible aid, make
u the the present an auspicious an
a all important time to move torwar
e. in the matter.
1t should not be forgotten tn.
Of the cold soath" has passed ava,
q New men have stepped upon I'll
e? theater of action, and recogpizin
in the spirit Of the age and the de-
to mands of the times, they come 70
,e, ward and prefer the hand til,
RS holds great wealth for our peopl
ad if they will but extend that gra,
st, of welcome..sufficient to enable tn
en- which is offered to express itself
is, asdeveloped state.
N, By glance at the map it will
he seen that the Cincinnati Souther
be as it strikes Tennessee, diverg
ng southeastward into what is know
Ily as Chattanooga Valley, to rea
Mt that city. and thus that line is sc
nix arated from the rich Middle TIE
ur nessee Valley by two great natul
ess barriers, to-wlt, Walder's Ridge Al
& Cumberland Mountain, each t,
en miles in height, and the first twel
nd miles in width and the latter tn
las ty miles. The people in these s;
ity tions are So marked and d
ell tinctly separated commercial
al as well as socially as the people
M Kentucky and Ohio. Cincinna
ir- by its great southern road. dra
largely from the Chattanooga 8,
of ton, Georgia and those states fl
Their south, but receives little
lat nothing of the immense trade
in Middle Tennessee and Northe
Alabama, lying west of the Cumb
GU land and Sand Mountains,
ave calculably rich in all those elemel
of material resources which ma
me a country valuable and its peoy
Mt prosperous. 1t is directly throu
i'd. the heart of this latter territor
which is on an air line between G
cinnati and Mobile on the G
Coast, that the proposed new 70
of will extend. The committee "
N remain in our city day or t.
on longer. They express Intensely
la as much pleased with the beauti
81 enterprise and bus mess spirit of {
the city and are duly appreciative of ,
ore very kind courtesies shown them
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